Usually means: Ancient fish once thought extinct.
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  3. coelacanth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. coelacanth: Wiktionary
  8. coelacanth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. coelacanth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  20. coelacanth: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ noun:  Either of two species of deep-water fish, Latimeria chalumnae of the Indian Ocean and Latimeria menadoensis of Indonesia.
▸ noun:  Any lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes, thought until 1938 to have been extinct for 70 million years.

Similar:
latimeria chalumnae, cœlacanth, coelacanthoid, coelacanthiform, latimeriid, latimerid, malacanthid, notacanthid, lates, cachalot, more...

Opposite:
non-coelacanth, non-fish, non-marine, terrestrial

Types:
Latimerichalumnae, Latimerimenadoensis, more...

Phrases:
West Indian Ocean coelacanth, Indonesian coelacanth, more...

Adjectives:
first, second, live, modern, fossil, female, famous, extant, primitive, only, true
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Similar:
latimeria chalumnae, cœlacanth, coelacanthoid, coelacanthiform, latimeriid, latimerid, malacanthid, notacanthid, lates, cachalot, more...

Opposite:
non-coelacanth, non-fish, non-marine, terrestrial

Types:
Latimerichalumnae, Latimerimenadoensis, more...

Phrases:
West Indian Ocean coelacanth, Indonesian coelacanth, more...

Adjectives:
first, second, live, modern, fossil, female, famous, extant, primitive, only, true



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